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JOHN D. MULLER, OF NEIV YORK, IT. Y.

SHIELD FOR SAD-IRONS.

SPECIFICATION forming m of Letters Patent No. 279,971; dated'JuneQG, 1883.

Application filed September 11, 1882. (Nomodell I To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, J OHN D. MULLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shields for Sad-Irons, of which the following is-a specification.

This invention relates to shields for attachment to sad-irons to protect the hand of the .ironer against the heat; and it consists in certain improvements both in the construction and arrangement of such shields, as hereinafter fully described.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l represents a plan or top view of the shield. Fig. 1* shows a bar for locking the shield. Fig. 2 shows an iron, in side View, containing the shield. Fig. i

3 is a horizontal section thereof. on the line no .r,

Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The letter A'design ates a sad-iron, having the usual handle, 13; and 0 indicates ashield combined withthe iron. This shield is composed of abottom layer, (1, (see Fig. 4,)of asbestus, and a top layer, 6, of sheet metal, the latter having its edges bent around the asbestus, so that the two layers are firmly united at the edges, while the sheet metal tends to coaet with the asbestus in rendering the shield a nonconductor of heat. the essential medium for imparting to the shield the required non-heat-conducting property.

The general shape of the shieldCis flat, with an outline corresponding approximately to that of the iron, and its position is upon the top of the iron, which it entirely covers. Hencethe shield has the effect of preventing the upward radiation of heat from the iron and in this manner it affords a superior protection to the hand of the ironer, the only heat to which the hand isleft exposed being that of the handle. Another important effect of the shield is to confine or retain the heat in the iron, thus adapting the article to be used a comparatively long period of time.

In order to increase the effect of the shield C, it is preferably beveled upon the edges, as shown, to overlap the edges of the iron.

Fig. 4' is a cross-section of the shield.

The asbestos, however, is

For the purpose of retaining the shield C in its posit-ion on the iron, it is constructed to engage the shanks of the handle B, and the best means which Ihave hitherto devised for effecting this purposeistheiollowing: In the shield are formed two openings, f of suitable shape to receive-the shanks of the handle B, and a slit, 7:, the latter extending inward from the rear edge of the shield and intersecting the opening], while it terminates in the opening 9, so that by slightly bending those portions of the shield situated on opposite sides of the slit upward and downward, respectively, the shield can be readily adjusted to bring the shanks of the handle into said openings, as indicated in Fig. 3. The terminal of the slit 71. being, as-stated, in the openingg, the shield left solid forward of such opening, and the advantage thereby gained is that the layers composing the body of the shield are capable of being formed in. one piece and in one operation, whereby the article is not only made strong and durable, but the least labor is involved in its manufacture. A detached locking-baryl, is used to prevent the accidental displacement of the shield on the iron, such bar being bent at the opposite ends in such a manner that it is adapted to embrace the side edges of the shield by being slid upon it from a forward direction, so that when the bar is brought adjacent to the rear shank of the handle B it tends to draw the two side portions of the shield toward each other, thereby cl osing the slit. Said bar I is held in its locking position by means of lips 0, which are formed by striking up the sheet metal composing the top layer of the shield on opposite sides of the slit h and at suitable points to allow the front edge of the bar to be brought beneath the lips, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

I am aware that a sad-iron has heretofore been provided with aehamber for the reception of a non-eomlucting material, and also that a shield has been madein two sections, divided by a slit extending the entire length of the shield,.and I do not claim such as my invention. J

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isp 1. As a new or improved article of manufaeture, a shield for sad-irons, composed of the united layers of asbestus and sheet metal and provided with means substantially such as herein described, for its attachment to the handle of the iron.

2. A sad-iron shield having the openings f direction, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. I11 combination with the locking-bar I, the sad-iron shield having the openings f g, slit 71, and the locking-lips 0, for engagement with said bar, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testim ony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN D. MULLER. lVitnesses:

' D101; OTTEN,

CHARLES H. LA NGIJ. 

